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I think 9 out of 10 times it's an end user issue that they keep doing. Like putting an X-box in a cabinet where it will just barely fit and then closing the doors because you have wireless controllers anyway. Doing so will fry the shit out of your box if you play for a long period of time at once and will even cause damage over a longer period of months.
The problem is that many people have their shit set up like this, get an error, send their stuff out to be repaired, get it back and put the machine back in the exact same circumstances. It's no surprise it then breaks again after a while.
Also, I've recently opened my Xbox up to replace the noisy fan and while I was looking at the inside I had to say I don't get why Microsoft claims this thing is able to be stand up straight. The hardware inside is clearly not laid out for it. Heat from the CPU will be sucked out the back because of a fan tunnel but the heat from every other component will rise up to the HDD. And on top of that; the side the HDD is attached to barely has ventilation holes so if you put the box up straight a large portion of the heat has nowhere to go. In turn it will cause the hardware to malfunction a lot faster over time and because the box is up straight, the individual components are a lot more vulnerable to the heat loosening up internal connections (gravity is always pulling everything down) and one broken connection can lead to a hardware error AKA RRoD.
So general advice, don't put your Xbox 360 straight up. Just lay it down on its side like any other console and you'll see it will last a lot longer.
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I agree with most of this post. But I'm pretty sure an HDD failure won't cause a red ring.